Step-by-Step guide to User Story Mapping

This template provides guidance on how to create an Agile User Story Map, as outlined by Jeff Patton, and provides templates at each stage. It also then explains how to go from “user story map” to “release plan”.

Five Steps:

Define your system span as a group of feature areas

Prioritise the features within each of these feature areas

Define one or two future “Releases” with a goal for each

“Cut” the features into these “Releases” to achieve each goal, while keeping the feature area groupings

Arrange the releases on an agile release plan

Editorial Guidance for User Story Mapping Included

For those new to the process, we walk you through each stage with “Guidance” slides